Poetics Of Deconstruction On The Threshold Of Differences Lynn Turner by Lynn Turner 9781350128590, 9781350128620, 1350128597, 1350128627 instant download after payment.

This book brings the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, especially his late work on the animal question as the heart of ethical possibility, into dialogue with continental feminist philosophy. This dialogue puts pressure on Derrida’s affirmation that animal and sexual differences breach the idealised masculine figure of the human, and draws out specific feminist questions: sometimes hospitable to deconstruction and sometimes antipathetic.
Héléne Cixous and Donna Haraway are both seen to develop theoretical work in parallel with Derrida, albeit with greater explicit engagement with feminism or, in the case of Haraway as a philosopher of science, stemming from a contrasting theoretical base. Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva are shown to diverge from deconstruction in different ways: Irigaray sometimes presents an ‘undeconstructible’ concept of the feminine; Kristeva requires the rejection of animality as inherent to human subjectivity.
Exposing Deconstructions draws its argument from contemporary case studies: independent or artist-made films, stills of which accompany the argument. It thus takes seriously the notion that deconstruction should never be reduced to a rigid methodology to be bluntly applied to anything. Rather, deconstruction takes account of the idiosyncrasies of each singular text, giving in-depth analysis to both narrative and poetic form.
The book enables complex reflection on concepts seemingly already at home in feminist theory and the humanities more broadly, but which are shown to benefit from, even if challenged by, this timely exposure to deconstruction and animal studies.